Guy came in the shop the other day said he had his father-in-law's gun with an empty stuck in it. I told him to bring it over and I would look at, thinking I could probably just pust a rod down the barrel and pop it out.

Well he brought it over and I about fell over. It was not stuck in the chamber, it was part way in the magazine tube. I sent him on his way and after a while I looked at it and found out it would go into the mag tube. I took the end cap off and out came the spring, follower button and the empty.

Guess what? It was a 270 win empty. How the hell does someone push a 270 case through the loading port and try to chamber it? Why even try an empty 270?

Is it safe to suppose that the gun in question was NOT in .270 caliber?

30-30

I always say that you can't make something fool proof because someone will always invent a better fool.

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Originally posted by Jim Kobe:
...it was part way in the magazine tube . How the hell does someone push a 270 case through the loading port and try to chamber it?

Would this be a lever rifle or a shotgun?

Sorry, I did forget to mention it was a nice older Winchester Model 94

someone get confused on the "3 shot" federal migratory bird thing, and try to make a bubba'ed up spacer?
LOL

Ah Jim ; You know as do the rest of us anything will chamber ONCE !.

A 270 in a 30/30 Ha Ha Ha good one Pa !.

Frank ; P T Barnum put it in proper perspective: A fool and his money shall soon part

and their is a sucker born every minute !. We have been around long enough to know that their not breeding

them any smarter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Once upon a time, I was amused by two old Norwegen guys in SE Alaska. They both had Remington 721 - one in 30-06, and the other in 300 H&H. They planned a week hunting trip for deer, and planned to go to some of their old stomping grounds, including climbing to the top of some local mountains. First night they cleaned their rifles thoroughly, then off hunting.

The guy with the 300 couldn't figure out why his bolt wouldn't close, so he couldn't use his rifle. The other couldn't figure out why his rifle wouldn't extract the 30-06 brass. Both rifles worked fine before, as they remembered.

Anyway, as I understand it they both used the 30-06, like a single shot, and pushed the empty out with a rod. Killed a few deer that way. Then on about the third day I was over visiting, and they told me about their situation. We started looking at the rifles, and discovered they had swapped bolts somehow.

They enjoyed the rest of their hunt. I'm just glad they didn't stick the 30-06 cartridge in the 300 chamber.

KB

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How the hell does someone push a 270 case through the loading port and try to chamber it? Why even try an empty 270?

Kids...

A neighbor owned a lever action rifle. Best I can remember it must have been a M94 Win. but that meant nothing to me at the time. My dad had no firearms. But I had a squirreled away a .22 LR cartridge and I wanted to shoot it.
Me and the neighbors kid sneaked in ,picked up the Winchester and I loaded it by dropping the loaded round into the chamber.....and watched it fall out the muzzle. End of that episode.

Many many years back I discovered tennis balls inside a plumbing vent pipe , # 16 of them to be exact !!.

Had venting problems and drains were clear ? Snake vents and Bingo snake stops .

I was remodeling a project as a contractor while putting myself through school .

Found the damest stuff inside walls chimney shelf's above the fireboxes .

Tore up an old place once to fix a leaky tub ripped out carpets down too the sub floor .

Found a very nice treasure in a vault between the joist and said nothing too the company who had

purchased that home for an office renovation . I would have told the people who lived in the house

but there weren't any !. It looked like the stuff was carefully wrapped in Oil cloth inside old leather

scabbards put away and forgotten cushioned between a blanket between the joist boxed in .

Maybe WW2 or Korean soldier who never returned ?. Can't imagine anyone alive would leave that !!!.

A nice LC Smith 56XX serial and my 7 Th. Marble Game Getter my one and only with an 18 " barrel !.

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Found a very nice treasure in a vault between the joist and said nothing too the company who had

purchased that home for an office renovation . I would have told the people who lived in the house

but there weren't any !. It looked like the stuff was carefully wrapped in Oil cloth inside old leather

scabbards put away and forgotten cushioned between a blanket between the joist boxed in .

Maybe WW2 or Korean soldier who never returned ?. Can't imagine anyone alive would leave that !!!.

A nice LC Smith 56XX serial and my 7 Th. Marble Game Getter my one and only with an 18 " barrel !.

I am gratified that you secretly kept what you found. Put up some pictures of anything you have left?